I want to take all your chocolate milk

My older niece visited me at work one day, and I got her a carton of chocolate milk, which she very much enjoyed. Some days later, she told me, "I want to go to your work."

"Why?" I asked.

"I want to take all your chocolate milk."

Missing from the story is that upon returning home after that first visit, she told everybody about her awesome visit with her uncle, and that he even got her a chocolate milk from the refrigerator. "And the chocolate milk is free, you can just take it!"

Her uncle (not me, a different uncle) told her, "Then you should go there with a knapsack and take all the chocolate milk."

That uncle is clearly a troublemaker. I'll have to keep an eye on him.

Someone somewhere is paying for it either way. Abuse of the system is (morally if not legally) theft then. Of course, if she has such cravings for chocolate milk then there could be a temporary insanity plea if it is not provided… ;-)

I worked for a company many years ago that worked with Microsoft, so I occasionally had to drive up to the Redmond campus. Every time I did so, my co-workers insisted I take a backpack to get them chocolate milk. Our office had free soda, but no free dairy…

It’s not like he’s really telling her to steal chocolate milk. He’s just playing a trick on her — there’s no way she could actually take all of the chocolate milk. Even one recently-filled-cooler’s worth of chocolate milk wouldn’t fit into her bag. Let alone that each floor has several coolers, each building has several floors, and there are dozens of buildings.

Being a Chinese myself, this almost stinks of those cheapskate employees (sweeping statement: usually mainland Chinese by observation) who’ll actually wipe out all the drinks / food / alcohol / what-not from the common office pantry (meant to be shared / consumed in office), and bring them home for personal consumption.

These people are just selfish idiots who’ll exploit anything for personal gain.

And yes, you’ll definitely have to beware of this uncle and possibly re-educate your niece before things get worse.